The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-28
SOUTHERN GLEANINes.

] ty, KY, about twenty-five years ole, nVe
feet seven inches tall, and weighs 100
pounds.
Two of the heaviest bales of cotton ever
! baled on a plantation press were received
/ at Vicksburg from Nittayuma, Miss, q
| few days ago, one weighing 925 and the
/ other 686 pounds.
/ In a sparsely settled section of Ballard
/ County, KY, Mrs. Stephens, a widow, was
murdered and her house robbed of 81, 200 a
| few days since. The aged va5fnan strug-
! gled hard for life, but the heartless brutes
/ showed her quarter.
I A great number Of cattle are dying from
/ an unknown disease on Broad river, South
! Carolina. They are taken with Quiver-
/ ing in every muscle. and no remedy that
( h as been given does them any good.
All the cattle that have died are those re-
/ Gently moved from the uplands to the bot
! toms. There is a mule in the community
affected in the same way, but it seems to
get no relief.
Annie Wright, Lula Wilson and Bette
Black are under arrest at Nashville, Tenn,
for the murder of J. L. Howard, late CT
ObiOn County. They placed his body
under a railroad trestle to convey the idea
that he had fallen and been accidentally
killed.
J. G. Durick, contractor, who was
building a large bridge at DeKiven, KY,
was engaged few days ago in hoisting a
heavy rock when the rope to the derrick
broke and Durick was thrown nearly sixty
feet in the air, and fell with fearful force
to the ground, breaking his shoulder and
collar-bone, and injuring him so severely
that he died in a few hours.
Much excitement has been occasionsd
in Mobile, Ala, by the persistent HAHN g
and social ostracism of children of He.
brew parentage at the Barton Academy.
Z Al
Three of the offending pupils have been
held to answer by the mayor.
Henry Borcher. until recently resident
of St Louis, and an empIOye of the Brush
Light and Power Company of New Or
leans, was killed in the latter city few
days ago by an electric current while en-.
gagged in repairing the line.
The game laws OF Virginia have been so
thoroughly respected during recent years
that game of all kinds is now found in the
mountainous districts.
It seems that the colored Masons in
Louisiana, who were described as a band
of murderers, have been maligned. Two
of their alleged victims are known to be
alive.
Dan Diamond shot and instantly killed
VIM. Crane, about five miles above
the mouth of the st. Francis river
in Arkansas a few days ago. Dia-
mond and Crane quarreled about the pos.
session of a fishing net, which was the
property of Diamond.
The steamer Regulator, $50 tons, run
ming between New York and Wilmingt
n. c., was burned at her wharf in the lat
ter place a few days ago. Her cargo of
cotton, naval stores and lumber, valued at
$4,000, was entirely destroyed. The yes.
sci also is a total loss. Both vessel and
cargo were insured.
Ben Bray, colored, who shot and killed
Joe Frizzs, colored, in Nashville, Tenn,
several months ago, was convicted in the
Criminal Court and sentenced to twenty
years. imprisonment. After committing
the crime Bray fed to East st. Louis,
H., where he was captured and taken
back.
Samuel W. Ramsey, from Indiana, y. as
arrested at Owensboro, KY, few days
ago, for abductiug Viola Tola, the daUgh-
ter of Herman Tola, of Cannellton, Ind.
The girls is thirteen years old, and her
parents are highly respectable. When
Ramsey was arrested she seemed over.
ioyed to get back to her father, and de-
clared that Ramsey had used more of
force than persuasion to get her away.
He was fined twenty dollars for vagrancy
and jailed in default, to await a requisi-
tion.
A severe storm visited New Orleans a
few nights ago, with a rainfall of two
inches, and the wind reached a velocity of
forty-eight miles per hour. Trees, fences
and buildings were blown down. Re-
ports from plantations along Morgan's
railroad, from Morgan City to New Or
leans, show that almost all the sugar-cane
was blown fat. The rear portion of the
city was inundated to a considerable ex.
tent
Extensive arrangements are being made
in Nashville, Tenn, for the reception and
entertainment of four hundred delegates
to the annual session Of the National
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
which begins November 16, and continues
six days. All the railroads in the South
ern Traffic Association have granted
rate of one and one-third fare for the
round trip. Many Of the most noted
women in the country will be in attend
ance, and questions of great Importance
will be discussed
Mrs. Stone, wife of Levy Stone, a prom
inent farmer of Pickens County, s. c.,
lost her life recently by a singular &C.
cident. A needle with which she had
been sewing was carelessly sticking in
the front part of her dress when she went
out INTO the yard to feed her pigs. Whilst
leaning over the pen the needle came in
contract with s1Coard and was sud denly
driven into Mrs Stones breast just above
the heart, producing a wound from the
effects of which she died in two hours.
Tampa's (Fla.) mayor sends out call
for assistance. The laboring class, white
and black, are in great need. There is no
business at all in the stricken city, and
the quarantine prevents any work being
done in that city. Aid is earnestly solicited.
DR.. WylIy, president of the Florida Health
Protective Association, indorses the call,
and says that great distress prevails there
already.
The body of kid" De Jarnatt, one Of
the party Of three who were drowned at
Memphis recently during the display of
fireworks at the presidential reception,
was discovered on a sand bar, two miles
below the city, half buried in mud. Only
a part of his underwear was found upon
his body, and it is thought he was robbed,
as he wore a fine gold watch and ring and
had some money when last seen.
Mrs. Cleveland captured Dixie.
Dick Gardner and John Henry were
convicted of horse-stealing in the Circuit
Court at Fort Smith, Ark, few days
since, the jury giving Gardner seven and
Henry FIVE years N the Penitentiary.
Henry is a noted thi'f and is wanted in
Texas, the Indian Territory and other
places for horse stealing.
A terrible tragedy occurred at Winches-
ter, Tenn, few nights ago. Two stu
dents in the Normal School at that place
got INTO a uGHbs WHICH EesuAbeu IN JuS XIII"
ing of one, Aldrich, his murderer being
Hawkins. The latter stabbed his oppo-
nent to death. There is great excitement
over the affair.
The steamer Silver Cloud was destroyed
by fire near Birmingham, Ky.
Curran. charged with the murder OF
Oficer Arnold, at Alexandria, Va, was
acquitted. A disgraoeful scene occurred
IN the courtroom.
Pat Tucker was instantly killed and
Nike Brennan fatally injured, while work